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Monday, August 4, 2008

mapped the spread of Walmart using Modest Maps. It starts slow and then spreads like wildfire in the southeast and makes its way towards the west coast.

...or like malignant melanoma.

However, I should state that I've gotten over my hatred of Walmart (but I still haven't been in one in years), once I came to the realization that they are merely the end result of the current rules of the game of commerce that we have established. Like Marlo Stanfield, Walmart is merely the evolutionary sociopath as produced by a form of Darwinism in, in this case, trade/commerce/business that rewards the fiercest, most inhuman creature within the system.

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"The American love affair with the car...it's an awful lot like Stockholm Syndrome." ~ Me.In the Sixties the philosopher Ivan Illich showed that the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.

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In the Sixties, the philosopher Ivan Illich showedthat the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.